If you look hard enough you will find clowns in any society. This is sensationalist utter rubbish some trust fund tosser has come up with.

There have certainly been some issues though affecting the Indian community in Melbourne in particular that have resulted from poorly managed immigration policy and the misuse of student visas as a foot hold in the country from which to work illegally taking the employment opportunities from Australian citizens.

There is no excuse for violence as society has shown in the reactions to it from the general populace. There is however a need for drastic change in how those visas are managed to ensure people are coming to Australia genuinely and not trying to game the system and generosity of the Australian public.

The irony of this TV show is that at a time when a high Aussie dollar is crushing tourism in Australia some silver spoonophile c-grade TV presenter is out portraying Australia in a manner that stands not only to misrepresent the public and alienate the Australian and Indian people further but to jeopardise jobs both of Indians and Australians in the tourism industry.

Aus and India have a healthy cricketing rivalry and beyond this it is patently false. I am now lucky enough to have a genuinely first class Indian guy as part of our family and he will agree that this whole issue is complete media BS.

Just ongoing proof that Australian's have it too good and enjoy little perspective of the real world's problems.

9:21 am June 29, 2012

Anon wrote:

The difference between a place like Queensland and Melbourne/Sidney is VERY noticeable. A trip to Queensland is a trip into the mid 20th century.

6:00 pm June 29, 2012

J A MacLeod wrote:

For some reason Australians do not enjoy a high reputation internationally. Much of that may be due to other countries' populations not understanding Australian informality and plain talk, and mistaking it for rudeness and coarseness. Australians do have the unfortunate name for being freeloaders and whingers. There is a joke that Australians was created in order to make Americans look civilised and adult!

11:21 am July 3, 2012

DM wrote:

I'm Australian-Chinese and I live in Hong Kong. And I actually believe Australians are dumb, drunk, DRUGGED UP and racist! It's so embarrassing how Aussies behave in Asia and in their own country! No, it's not okay to get drunk and beat up Asian people half your size because you feel like it! No, it's not okay to "joke" about asking your mom to clean your house because you're Filipino. No, it's not cool to steal from 7-Eleven "just because you can"! I left Australia in 1996, and I honestly believe there's a serious social/moral problem with the country. Too bad that most people who live there think - and accept - that it's just normal daily life.

1:27 pm July 8, 2012

Raquel wrote:

@David. You really are ignorant and missed the whole point of a show like this. I1. It's not free to air overseas and 2. It's not a tourism grab. And on that point you should look up the definition of irony because you're not even close. Irony is your comment in response to the point of the show.

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